John W. (jrw) reviewed Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences on + 33 more book reviews
This book is written for scientists and mathematicians and may not be easily absorbed by the layman. An understanding of calculus is necessary to fully profit from the text. Throughout the book, the problems are typically at least one step above the basic example, thus rendering the example to be of limited help. Several readings of the same information are required due in part to the presentation. Even rudimentary statistical equations such as propagation of errors require extended derivation from the text. However, this book is still better than many statistics books unfortunately.
